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  • Title: Jack Juggler (Quarto 1)
  • Editor: David Swain
  • Textual editor: Dr. Sarah Neville
  • Coordinating editor: Brett Greatley-Hirsch

    • ISBN: 978-1-55058-490-5

    Copyright David Swain. This text may be freely used for educational, non-profit purposes; for all other uses contact the Editor.
    Author: Anonymous
    Editor: David Swain
    Not Peer Reviewed

    Jack Juggler (Quarto 1)

    And maner frute falleth from the trees
    As Apples,Nuttes,Peres,and plummes also
    Wherby a boie maie liue a brod a moneth or two
    1115This ca st do I vse I woll not with you fayne
    Therfore I wonder if he be I sertaine
    But and if he be,and you mete me a brod by chaunce
    Send me home to my mai ster with a vengaunce
    And shew him if he cume not ere to morowe nyght
    1120I woll neuer receyue him agayne if I myght
    And in the meane tyme I woll giue hym a grote
    That woll well and thryftelye walke his cote
    For a more vngracious knaue is not euen now
    Bytwene this place and Calycow
    1125Nyr a more frantike mad knaue in bedelem
    Nor a more folle hence to Iherusalem
    That if to cume agayne parcace he shall refuse
    I woll continew as I am and let hym choose
    And but he cum the soner by our lady bright
    1130He shall lye without the dores all night
    For I wol shyte vp the gate,and gete me to bede
    For I promi s s e you I haue a verie gydie hede
    I nede no supper for this night
    Nor wolde eate no meat though I myght
    1135And for you also mai ster I thinke it be st
    you go to bede,and take your re st
    For who of you had byn handelyd as I haue ben
    wold not be long out of his bede I ween
    No more woll I but stele out of syght
    1140I praye god geue you all good nyght
    And send you better hape,and fortune
    Then to le s s e your selfe homward as I haue don
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